Dr. Johannes Wirges
Doctor of engineering sciences, Diploma computer scientist, Graphic designer
My working and educational background combines computer science, engineering, and graphic design. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with a focus on modeling and simulation. Afterwards I worked at the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER). There I developed simulation interfaces and mapped data in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for electric mobility projects. During that time I wrote my doctoral thesis Planning the Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles in Cities and Regions at the Institute of Traffic Engineering at the KIT. Afterwards I completed a one-year graphic designer certificate at the Online Schule für Gestaltung (OfG). I then worked at E.ON Business Services as a Visual Analytics Engineer. Now I am offering my services as a freelancer.
Regularly I extend my skills in data visualization. I notably took courses on dashboard development and reporting by reporting impulse, on data journalism by Alberto Cairo, and on creative data visualization by Federica Fragapane.
Currently I live happily in Essen in the Ruhr region. This region used to be a center of the German coal mining and steel industry, and is now reinventing itself via startups, culture, and restaurants. It is a strongly underrated region, being with more than 5 million inhabitants in fact Europe’s fourth biggest urban agglomeration behind London, Paris, and Madrid.
In my free time I follow my interest in everything reading books, visiting museums, and traveling.
You can contact me via email j.wirges(at)gmx.de or, if you’re active in those networks, via my LinkedIn account or my Xing account